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Supply chain

Meaning in logistics & supply chain, with examples

/səˈplaɪ tʃeɪn/nounCore term

In logistics & supply chain, supply chain means: The whole network of companies, people and activities that turns raw materials into a finished product and moves it to the final customer.

In Turkish: tedarik zinciri

How it is used

Used everywhere in business, from boardroom reports to warehouse meetings. It often works like an adjective before another noun: supply chain manager, supply chain risk, supply chain team.

Example sentences

  1. The chip shortage hit every part of our supply chain, from assembly to delivery.

  2. She moved from purchasing to a supply chain role last year.

Common collocations

  • global supply chain
  • supply chain management
  • supply chain disruption
  • manage the supply chain
  • short supply chain
  • logisticsThe planning and control of how goods are moved, stored and delivered so that they arrive at the right place, at the right time and at the right cost.
  • procurementThe process of finding, choosing and buying the goods and services a company needs, including negotiating with suppliers and managing contracts.
  • disruptionAn unexpected event that interrupts the normal flow of goods, such as a natural disaster, a strike, a port closure, a cyber attack or a supplier failure.
  • inboundComing into a company or facility, especially materials and goods arriving from suppliers; the opposite of outbound, which describes goods going out to customers.
  • demand planningThe process of predicting future demand and agreeing on one demand plan that the company then uses to plan purchasing, production and stock.

More terms: Supply Chain Management

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